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Category: Environment and Climate

  •  “Eating-Houses in New-York.” (October 7, 1845) 
  • “Extraordinary Turtle at Downing’s.” (July 26, 1838)
  • “An Oyster House Millionaire About to Retire” (January 7,...
  • “Downing and the Fine Collector.” (December 21, 1855)
  • “From the Journal of Commerce.” (February 26, 1841)
  • “Oysters!—Oysters!—Oysters!” (March 30, 1838)
  • “The Annual Congratulation” (December 30, 1841)
  • “The discovery of New Brittaine. Began August 27. anno...
  • “Town Gossip.” (May 5, 1866)
  • Cox’s Snow and the Persistence of Weather Memory
  • Diet in Early Virginia Indian Society
  • Early Archaic Period
  • Enslaved Fishermen and Mariners in Virginia
  • Hurricane Camille (August 1969)
  • Little Ice Age and Colonial Virginia, The
  • Maclin C. Wheeler (1854 or 1855–June 6, 1916)
  • Paleoindian Period (16,000–8000 BC)
  • Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp
  • Rye Cove Cyclone
  • Shenandoah National Park
  • Starving Time, The
  • Telling Their Story: The Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia
  • The Economy of the Enslaved in Virginia
  • The Great Dismal Swamp: A Mythical Place of Enslaved...
  • The Kepone Environmental Disaster
  • Weather during the Civil War

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Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation, the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.


We invite you to learn more about Indians in Virginia in our Encyclopedia Virginia.